HEALTH

Update | 4:05 p.m. Thanks for the interest, everyone who replied. We’ve found a community member who wants to cover the meeting.

Are you interested in helping us cover Fort Greene and Clinton Hill? Well, here’s your chance to become the ears, eyes and voice of the streets, locals. There’s a Community Board 2 General Meeting coming up tomorrow and we’re looking for your help.

The monthly board meeting is set for Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Saint Francis College, on the first floor board room in Founders Hall (the auditorium) at 180 Remsen Street, between Clinton Street and Court Street.

There will be a review of the previous month’s minutes from committees on land use, transportation and public safety, and health, environment and social services. You can also expect to see several committee reports and a session on new businesses.

If faced with a disability, residents can ask their landlords to make “reasonable accommodations” for them, she said. However, the amount of accommodations depends on the type of disability, its severity, the cost of accommodations and whether it’s an undue burden for the landlord to make the necessary change.Read more…

A New York state panel recommends more state control over some hospitals and medical centers in Brooklyn due to increasing debt, The Wall Street Journal reports. Three of the hospitals being taken over have a combined debt of $276 million. The panel says weak management is a major problem in Brooklyn hospitals.

Do you ever feel like you’re getting robbed every time you use an A.T.M. that doesn’t belong to your own bank? Well, the fees might soon disappear. Business Insider reports that a Brooklyn man started a business that would dispense money from A.T.M.’s without charging a fee. The only catch is that you will have to watch a few ads before you get your cash, and your bank might still charge you.

A park ranger who caught a man masturbating in Prospect Park earlier this month said he was reprimanded for his actions and not calling the police immediately, reports The Brooklyn Paper. The ranger had chased after the man, who was armed with a loaded handgun, and held him until police arrived.

If you’re due for a medical checkup but have been too busy (or nervous) to go see a doctor, clear some time this weekend and take yourself to the Child Development Support Corporation‘s 2nd Annual Community Health and Wellness Fair on Saturday.

The CDSC is partnering with Weill-Cornell Medical College and Project Renewal to offer an array of free preventative health screening services, including: mammograms for uninsured women over the age of 40 (by appointment), glaucoma testing, rapid HIV testing, blood glucose and cholesterol screenings, and ask-a-doctor sessions. For those with health insurance, all deductibles and co-payments will be waived.

The event will be April 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Child Development Support Corporation, at 352-358 Classon Avenue between Clifton Place and Lafayette Avenue.

You can even treat yourself to a free massage afterward to de-stress from the week. Stay healthy!

Brenden BeckRepresentatives from the Fulton Grand Bar, seeking a liquor license, presented their case to the Health, Environment and Social Services Committee of Brooklyn Community Board 2 Wednesday.

The community that Brooklyn Hospital serves “ranks really, really poorly in public health statistics” said Beryl Williams, the Director of Community Outreach for the hospital. “There are higher rates of HIV/AIDS, diabetes, asthma, and other health risks.”

Williams spoke to the Health, Environment and Social Services Committee of Brooklyn Community Board 2, which convened in the hospital at DeKalb and Ashland Wednesday evening.Read more…

The people behind the effort to start the Greene Hill Food Co-op voted Wednesday night to approve the group’s bylaws, establishing the legal foundations for the organization. The vote, from about 16 members, was an important step that opens the door to recruiting new members – and their money.

Now the group, which met in studio space off Fulton Street, can move forward with its promise to make healthy, fresh affordable food accessible to all members of the community – regardless of socio-economic background.

“We’re very concerned with making sure that everyone in the community – including those in public housing and the people with disabilities – can get access to fresh food,” said Brian Tubbs, who is involved in organizing the fledgling co-op.

*Free mammograms will be offered tomorrow (Tuesday) from noon to 6 p.m. in a “Mobile Mammography Van” outside Councilwoman Letitia James’s office at 67 Hanson Place. To qualify, women must be over 40 and not had a mammogram in the last 12 months. Appointments are necessary and can be made by calling 800-453-8378, extension 1. The service has been set up by Ms. James and the Italian-American Cancer Foundation. For women without insurance, the screening will be paid for by the state or by the cancer foundation’s donors. For women with insurance, the insurance will be billed but there will be no co-pay.

* In case you’re wondering what the big dig at the crossroads of Fulton and Lafayette is about, it’s the latest step in the city’s ongoing rejiggering of Fulton to calm traffic and make pedestrians’ lives a little better. We wrote about it in July.

* In Atlantic Yards news, the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, will hear the lawsuit against the use of eminent domain for the project on Wednesday. Norman Oder of Atlantic Yards Report handicaps it like this:

It may not look like summer, it might not feel like summer — but things are clearly shifting into summer mode, based on this week’s calendar of public events.

One of the more serious events this week:

Surviving Foreclosure Town Hall with Representative Ed Towns
Representative Ed Towns will hold a town hall where residents can get answers to questions and information on avoiding or surviving the foreclosure process. District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and representatives from the Pratt Area Community Council and Bridge Street Development Corporation will join Mr. Towns. Experts in the mortgage market and foreclosure counselors will teach residents how to navigate the legal process of loan modification and renegotiating loan terms to achieve affordability.

The city Department of Transportation’s controversial Citi Bike bike-sharing program, which put 600 bike racks on the streets of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, has residents up in arms. But kiosks are not coming down, New York City Council Member Letitia James told more than 100 neighborhood residents at a raucous town hall meeting last night.

Get news about Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in our daily roundup, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s summer slate of youth-oriented programs and the third annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival coming to St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill.

In today’s daily post, you’ll find news on the spring opening of the Fort Greene Artisan Market, a Pratt Institute student artwork display at a Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan and a new recording studio in the nabe.

In this crime report, locals told police that their belongings were stolen from cars and trucks, their homes were burglarized and their bank accounts were used in unauthorized ways. Also, disputes between significant others resulted in violence and robberies last week. The trend of robberies on the B38 bus continued last week, with another incident on May 4 marking the tenth such robbery in the precinct this year so far.

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